Erythrasma: successful treatment after single‐dose clarithromycin

Chodkiewicz, Hubert M.; Cohen, Philip R.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-4632.2011.05005.x

Cited by 20 publications

(20 citation statements)

References 5 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Patients will be more compliant with a one‐time dose of 1‐g oral clarithromycin as opposed to the one 250 mg tablet, taken four times daily, for 14 days dosing schedules of both erythromycin and tetracycline. Clarithromycin has a safer adverse reaction profile than tetracycline and can be safely used on pediatric patients as it does not cause tooth discoloration in children . While clarithromycin and erythromycin cause similar adverse reactions, clarithromycin causes less gastric side effects while having higher bioavailability, longer half‐life, and broader spectrum of antimicrobial activity compared to erythromycin .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interdigital Pedal Erythrasma treated with one‐time dose of oral clarithromycin 1 g: Two case reports

Khan¹

2020

Clinical Case Reports

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interdigital Pedal Erythrasma treated with one‐time dose of oral clarithromycin 1 g: Two case reports

Khan¹

2020

Clinical Case Reports

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…20% fetal bovine serum, 2% agar and 78% tissue culture medium #199) may be required in certain cases. 4,5 A potassium hydroxide preparation of tissue scrapings can rule out concomitant infections, especially in patients with interdigital involvement. 4 The differential diagnosis of erythrasma includes candidiasis, psoriasis and dermatophytosis.…”

Section: -3mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…4,5 A potassium hydroxide preparation of tissue scrapings can rule out concomitant infections, especially in patients with interdigital involvement. 4 The differential diagnosis of erythrasma includes candidiasis, psoriasis and dermatophytosis. [1][2][3][4][5] The most effective treatment is 500 mg of erythromycin twice daily for 14 days, with cure rates as high as 100%; however, other treatments with topical antibiotics and antifungals have also demonstrated good responses.…”

Section: -3mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[1][2][3][4][5] The most effective treatment is 500 mg of erythromycin twice daily for 14 days, with cure rates as high as 100%; however, other treatments with topical antibiotics and antifungals have also demonstrated good responses. [1][2][3][4][5] …”

Section: -3mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[3][4][5] The diagnosis is usually clinical, but a WL examination can show characteristic fluorescence due to coproporphyrin III produced by the bacteria. 2,3 The WL emits ultraviolet A radiation with …”

Section: -3mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Coral-Red Fluorescence of Erythrasma Plaque

Blasco‐Morente¹,

Arias‐Santiago²,

Pérez-López³

et al. 2016

SQUMJ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A 50-year-old man presented to the Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Complex of Granada, Granada, Spain, in 2015 with a slightly pruritic rash on the left groin, which he had had for two years. He had attended the hospital previously and been diagnosed with eczema and tinea cruris. This had been treated with topical steroids and antifungal drugs (methylprednisolone and sertaconazole) for several months without improvement. A physical examination of the patient showed a diffuse, brownish, well-defined, scaly plaque in the left inguinal region [ Figure 1A]. A potassium hydroxide preparation of tissue scrapings was negative for fungal elements or cultures. The coralred fluorescence of the plaque under a Wood's lamp (WL) examination was characteristic of erythrasma [ Figure 1B]. The patient was treated with 500 mg of oral erythromycin every 12 hours for 14 days, with progressive healing observed over three weeks. CommentErythrasma is a localised and chronic skin infection caused by Corynebacterium minutissimum.

show abstract

Bacterial Infections

Hay,

Morris‐Jones

2016

Rook's Textbook of Dermatology, Ninth Edition

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This chapter starts by considering the resident bacterial population of the skin and how this has altered with our growing understanding of the skin microbiome. It then reviews the whole range of bacterial skin infections from primary Gram‐positive infections due to staphylococci and streptococci to the less common infections caused by Gram‐negative and anaerobic bacteria. The cutaneous manifestations of common and rare systemic bacterial infections such as staphylococcal septicaemia and melioidosis are described in practical detail. Using new work on antibiotics, the spread of drug resistance amongst skin bacterial pathogens is reviewed and its relevance clarified in the treatment algorithms. Rickettsial infections are also considered.

show abstract

Erythrasma: successful treatment after single‐dose clarithromycin

Cited by 20 publications

References 5 publications

Interdigital Pedal Erythrasma treated with one‐time dose of oral clarithromycin 1 g: Two case reports

Interdigital Pedal Erythrasma treated with one‐time dose of oral clarithromycin 1 g: Two case reports

Coral-Red Fluorescence of Erythrasma Plaque

Bacterial Infections

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About